[NEWS] World's First DeCSS Executable Prime Number

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Date: 09/21/01 

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Subject: [NEWS] World's First DeCSS Executable Prime Number
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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:42:34 +0200 (CEST)

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  World's First DeCSS Executable Prime Number
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SUMMARY

Math professor Phil Carmody, who in March of this year managed to encode
the DeCSS source in a prime number, has upped the ante by producing a
prime number that represents an executable version of the banned CSS
descrambler.

DETAILS

Here's that fascinating prime number, which incidentally just happens to
defeat CSS:
4931083597028501900275777672390764957284907772150208632080750184097926278850976
5886455780201366007328679544734112831735367831201557535981978545054811571939345
8773300380099326195058764525023820408110189885042615176579941704250889037029119
0158700304794328260738214695415703302279875576818956016240300641115169008728798
3819425827167456477481668434792846458092913153186007001004335318936319343912948
6044503709919800477094629215581807111691530318762884778783541575932891093295447
3508818824654950600050190062747053053811642782942674748534965257453681511706550
2819055526562213531463104210086628679711444670636692198258615811125155565048134
2076867323407655054859108269562666930662367997021048123965625180068183236539593
4839567535755753246190234810647009877530279561868929253806933052042381499699454
5694577413833568990600587083218127048611336820265159051663518740290181976939376
7785292872210955041292579257381866058450150552502749947718831293104576980909153
0461335941903025881320593227744438525504667790245186970626277888919795804230657
5061566983469561779787965920164405193996071698111261519561027628323398257914233
2172696144374438105648552934887634921030988702878745323313253212267863328370279
2509974996948877593691591764458803271838474023593302037488850675570658791946113
4193230781485443645437511320709860639074641756412163504238800296780855867037038
7509410769821183765499205204368255854642288502429963322685369124648550007559166
4024729240716450725319674499952944843474190210772960682055813092362683798795196
6199798285525887161096136561780745661592488660889816456854172136292084665627913
1478466791550965154310113538586208196875836883595577893914545393568199609880854
0476590735897289898342504712891841626587896821853808795627903997862944939760546
7534821256750121517082737107646270712467532102483678159400087505452543537

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by <mailto:tcgreene@bellatlantic.net>
Thomas C. Greene.

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